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• Autore/i
  Cont, A.
• Titolo pubblicazione
  Educare alla e attraverso l'amicizia. Precettori e governatori nella società nobiliare italiana del Seicento
• Titolo giornale o rivista in cui è pubblicata
  "Annali di Storia dell'Educazione e delle Istituzioni Scolastiche"
• Numero di serie del libro o giornale
  20
• Da pagina
  83
• A pagina
  103
• Abstract
  Although in the last decade friendship has become a very popular field of investigation by historians of the early modern period, the role it played in the education of powerful elites in the Italian baroque age is still largely unknown. The aim of this paper is to fill these gaps at least partially, thus providing new knowledge to illuminate the functions and activities of those responsible for the education of young aristocrats in central and northern Italy during the 17th century. Thanks to many unpublished letters, to theoretical works and to normative texts of the time, it is possible to investigate which models of friendship the governors, preceptors and teachers tried to instil in their students in the context of the upbringing of a “christian knight”, a “gentleman”, and a “courtier”. And yet, from vivacious and sometimes surprising epistolary stories sometimes one can detect the resistance that the teachings on friendship elicited from adolescents in family palaces, colleges, courts and academies. Also, the archival and library materials help to reveal the more favourable conditions for the evolution of a relationship characterized by mutual friendship between a teacher and a noble disciple, and – through this process – what issues derived with respect to pedagogical strategies and social conventions.